Tall women can stand proud, says a tall journalist, who set out on a mission to collect the stories of other tall women and to model body confidence for her daughter.
ABC News journalist Candice Prosser is in the 99th percentile for height for an Australian woman. She's 183cm tall, or about 6 foot, with size 13 feet: "Long limbs, long fingers, long feet - I'm just long," she told Jim Mora on Sunday Morning.
"[I'm] very much in the minority for statistics for an Australian woman - it's probably very similar in New Zealand."
Prosser said she has had to come to terms with her towering stature, and in her recent article for the ABC, she explained why standing out is empowering.
"I'm actually noticing a lot more tall women now than when I was growing up, and it's really lovely to see other tall women owning it with confidence. Certainly statistically speaking, we're apparently a very rare breed."
The article came from seeing the need for more positive representation for tall women in the media, Prosser says: "I don't think we see enough of it.
"Height is something I've been reflecting on recently - I'm a mum, and I've got a little girl who's almost 5, and she's got beautiful long limbs and she'll definitely be tall like my husband and I. And it got me thinking, I really want to model that body confidence for her as she grows up."
Society has some double-standards around height and gender, as well as body image ideals, she says.
"I think sometimes we fall into that trap, especially as women, of being very apologetic for our existence. ...And a lot of the time we're conditioned to believe that being big in any sense as a woman is not desirable.